Screen door spring



\ Sept; 6, 1938.

A. L. TIMMONS SCREEN DOOR SPRING Filed-Jan. 8, 1955 zo J WMM

Patented sept. 6, 193s 2,129,338

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE SCREEN DOOR SPRING Adam Leal Timmons, Salina, Kans.

Application January 8, 1935, Serial No. 903

1 Claim. (Cl. 1672) Screen doors are. generally equipped with reconsisting of telescoping tubes Ill, Il having open tractile springs attached at one end to the door distal ends in which are cross pins or rivets I2 and at the opposite end to the door jamb to which which also pass through on the meeting ends of the door is hinged, the opening of the door the spring and the attaching hooks 6 and 8, so

5 stretching the spring so that it at once returns that these pins or rivets connect the hooks with 5 the door to closed position when the opening the spring and both hooks and spring with the force is released. Owing to the careless or recktelescopic tubes. The hooks may pivot on the less manner in which the doors are frequently pins so that binding or breakage of the parts opened, the springs are often broken and serious cannot occur. The tubes are preferably of light l0 injury has resulted, the flying broken spring ends metal but they may be of any inexpensive matel0 hitting persons passing or in the vicinity of the rial having the requisite strength and durability. door. My invention provides means to avoid in- The spring will operate in the usual manner to jury from broken springs without lessening the close the opened door and is completely housed normal efliciency of the springs. The invention in the sheath which elongates and shortens with 15 is illustrated in the accompanying drawing and the spring by reason cf its ends being connected will be hereinafter fully described, the novel feawith the ends of the spring. Should the spring tures being particularly defined in the appended break, its parts would remain in the sheath and claim. no damage to persons or any other parts of the In the drawing: apparatus would result. A new spring may be Figure 1 is an elevation of a portion of a screen easily fitted in place as the open ends of the door having the invention applied thereto. tubes will permit them to be easily separated and Figure 2 is a section on the line 2-2 of Figure 1. engaged over the opposite ends of the spring Figure 3 is a similar view showing the door which ends may be readily hooked about the opened. respective pins or rivets.

Figure 4 is a longitudinal section through the Having described my invention, whatIclaim is: 25 spring and its sheathing showing a modied form A screen door spring and housing therefor of connecting means. comprising, a retractile spring having eyes at the Figure 51s an elevation of the same. ends, a pair of open ended telescoping tubes Figure 6 is a section on the line 6--6 of Fighousingv the spring and having their distal ends 30 ure 4. unobstructed, cross pins extending through the 30 The screen door I of any approved constructubes adjacent their distal ends and engaged tion is hinged, as at 2, to the door frame 3. In through said terminal eyes of the spring, and a a cross rail 4 0f the dOOl iS Secured an eye 5 in pair of hooks for connecting the tubes and the which is engaged a hook or eye B which is conspring to a door frame and to a door pivoted to 35 35 nected with one end of the spring T, the opposite the cross pins and extending freely therefrom end Of the Spring being connected with a similar through the open unobstructed distal ends of the hook 8 which is engaged in an eye 9 secured in tubes, the door frame. The spring is housed in a sheath ADAM LEAL TIMMONS. 

